Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being concatenated or linked together; a relation of interconnection or interdependence.
  • noun A series of things united like links in a chain; any series of interconnected or interdependent things or events: as, “a concatenation of explosions,”
  • noun The association of a number of nerve-cells in a series to form a nerve or nerve-tract.
  • noun In electricity, same as cascade connection, .

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun countable A series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; a chain, a succession.
  • noun uncountable The application of these series of links.
  • noun programming Operation of joining two character strings.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
  • noun the state of being linked together as in a chain; union in a linked series
  • noun the linking together of a consecutive series of symbols or events or ideas etc
  • noun the act of linking together as in a series or chain

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Examples

  • The portentious concatenation is a parallel post by another well-known non-philosopher, P. Z.Meyers.

    October 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Nature had formed honest Meg for such encounters; and as her noble soul delighted in them, so her outward properties were in what Tony Lumpkin calls a concatenation accordingly.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Nature had formed honest Meg for such encounters; and as her noble soul delighted in them, so her outward properties were in what Tony Lumpkin calls a concatenation accordingly.

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • The single text operator (the so-called ampersand) is used in formulas to join together two or more text entries (an operation with the highfalutin 'name concatenation).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Elifa 2009

  • The concatenation is a rather exciting departure from decades of tradition.

    Film School Rejects 2008

  • The turn to concrete social mechanisms as the unit of social analysis suggests that it is most fruitful to seek out explanations of outcomes as the "concatenation" of a set of common social mechanisms Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory.

    Processes versus structures Daniel Little 2008

  • The turn to concrete social mechanisms as the unit of social analysis suggests that it is most fruitful to seek out explanations of outcomes as the "concatenation" of a set of common social mechanisms Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Daniel Little 2008

  • I think the idea of 'concatenation' is a useful way to approach the heterogeneity of the social, but I wonder at the same time whether it doesn't cover over some difficult questions.

    Heterogeneity of the social Daniel Little 2008

  • For astrology pretendeth to discover that correspondence or concatenation which is between the superior globe and the inferior; natural magic pretendeth to call and reduce natural philosophy from variety of speculations to the magnitude of works; and alchemy pretendeth to make separation of all the unlike parts of bodies which in mixtures of natures are incorporate.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • In Simplicius Fate is the chain of causal concatenation which is inherent in the seed and there - fore considered the ratio seminalis.

    FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968

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  • "The basic idea is this: Change X number of image downloads to 1 image download by making 1 big image that contains the X images."

    http://borkweb.com/story/faster-page-loads-with-image-concatenation

    April 28, 2007

  • Cool idea. I'm trying to think of a practical use for it, or wondering if it's more trouble than it's worth.

    April 30, 2007

  • actually, I use it all the time, in the phrase "by a unique concatenation of circumstances"

    in other words, there's a long story of meaningless reasons that led to this, but I don't feel like listing them

    July 20, 2008

  • A phylogenetic method based on combining different genes into a single super-matrix, and analyzing this matrix forcing all genes to conform to the same topology.

    (Which is bad.)

    June 5, 2010

  • concatenation is a concatenation of the words con cat and nation, as well as the letter e

    January 20, 2013